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2019
The U.S. government on Wednesday issued an unprecedented rebuke of Facebook after a year of massive privacy mishaps, charging the company deceived its users and "undermined" choices they made to protect their data as part of a settlement that requires the tech giant to pay $5 billion and submit t...
07/30/2019
The late architect I.M. Pei got a reverential sendoff when died in May at age 102.Coverage of Pei’s legacy, including the National Gallery of Art East Wing in Washington, DC., the Louvre pyramid in Paris, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, was extensive and for the most part, enthus...
07/30/2019
The FBI has arrested a Seattle area woman on charges of stealing tens of millions of sensitive customer records from Capital One, the Virginia-based bank with a popular credit card business, including some bank account numbers, according to court papers.The suspect, Paige Thompson, was arrested ...
07/30/2019
The Cleveland Clinic took the fourth-place spot overall in U S World & News Report Best Hospital Ratings and earned the top nationwide ranking in cardiology and heart surgery for the 25th consecutive year. The Mayo Clinic, In Rochester,Minn took first place. “Year after year, for 21 years, we’v...
07/30/2019
Celebrities with birthdays today Actor Edd "Kookie" Byrnes is 86. Movie director Peter Bogdanovich is 80. Feminist activist Eleanor Smeal is 80. Jazz musician David Sanborn is 74. Actor William Atherton is 72. Blues singer-musician Otis Taylor is 71. Actor Frank Stallone is 69. Actor Ken Olin is...
07/30/2019
Today is Tuesday, July 30, the 211th day of 2019. There are 154 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 30, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure making "In God We Trust" the national motto, replacing "E Pluribus Unum" (Out of many, one).On this date:In 1619, th...
07/30/2019
DirecTV Now is getting a new name.Subscribers of the cable replacement service will notice the new name, AT&T TV Now, in the next few weeks, the company announced on Tuesday.“In the coming weeks, your DIRECTV NOW app will change to AT&T TV, but will continue to deliver the same great streaming e...
07/30/2019
Ordering dinner straight to your doorstep via an app may be convenient, but it turns out that relying on a driver to deliver your food untouched may not be a safe bet.According to a new survey, from US Foods, about 28% of drivers admitted to taking food from deliveries, which people place throug...
07/30/2019
U.S. technology giants are headed for their biggest antitrust showdown with Congress in 20 years as lawmakers and regulators demand to know whether companies like Google and Facebook use their dominance to squelch innovation.Executives from Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon.com are set to appe...
07/22/2019
For the first time, Cleveland has cracked the list of top meeting destinations in the United States, compiled annually by Cvent, a meeting-management technology firm.Cleveland finished 50th on the list of top 50 meeting destinations in the United States. And if that doesn’t seem like much of an ...
07/22/2019